The Creation story has two halves. In the first three days God, Elohim, essentially makes spaces for living things to be. On days 4-6 Elohim fills those spaces with living
People play hacky sack with a spirit of inclusion and cooperation. The point is to keep the ball up together by passing it around the group. Corporate prayer should have
“There is a private place reserved for the lovers of God, where they sit near Him and receive the revelation secrets of His promises.” Psalm 25:14 TPT In Ezekiel’s
In Cultivate Well I talked about focusing on doing good, sowing something that would bear good fruit and give us something to share, and also about fighting the clutter in
In Genesis 3 we see Adam and Eve fall, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is sometimes called a Tree of Testing. It was a test, but what
I’ve had two dreams recently that have really left an impression in my mind. The details and circumstances of each were different, but at the same time, there were several overlapping ideas. In both dreams, there were young people who were dear to me, and there
I just took my dog for a walk. I had written a draft of this post and needed to pray and meditate before coming back and finishing it. I took her with me thinking it would be good for her, and me. But she is
I’ve been meditating on the verse from Jeremiah 12 which says, “If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan.” My first thought was, “But Lord, I like safe country. Why do I have to go to the thickets
I didn’t know when I wrote down these three simple prayers that they were progressive in nature, and the Lord has answered them concurrently, or at least overlapping. Faithful prayer is about laying down roots, the deeper the better. Holiness is about refusing to give “dirt” to
In the last post, I introduced three short prayers that I’ve had taped to the wall of my prayer closet for at least a year. I don’t really know how long, but at least that long. They are: Show me what it means to be
I have an index card taped to the wall in my prayer closet with three short prayers written on it. These prayers came to me in a time of prayer, and I felt them so sincerely in the moment that I wrote them down and
When I began, Kay Arthur and Precept Ministries crossed my path. I learned her method of studying the bible. It is a rigorous and methodical method of study. In the beginning my quiet time was my life line. I poured hours into reading, studying, meditating
My brother has a prayer that came straight from God during his prayer time. He has prayed some form of that prayer over and over and over again. It is a beautiful prayer of surrender. My friend Barbara has a prayer that came to her in
In my last blog I talked about this scripture from 1 Corinthians: “For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is
“Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit,